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Qualyxian Quest
Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2020
My favorite quote from Clifford Pickover's twitter account
If you really want to know what is going on inside the human brain, don't ask me. I'm just a nueroscientist. If you really want to know, you have to ask a philosopher. :)
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2020
On humility
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
- T.S. Eliot
Despite portrayals in the popular media, Jesus wasn't humble. He was tough.
- Father Andrew Greeley
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2020
Vigilance
Spring rolls at Hawkers
Portland on my mind
She called it the Law of Attraction
What we seek is what we find
I am drawn to the intense
Father Greeley and Coach Katz
And I've learned from the Dark Knight
He's the one who learned from bats
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2020
Listening to Ludwig
To believe in a God means the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2020
Rebel song
I'm not a wordsmith, he said to me
But try to be like Zaccheus
Edmund Burke quote I did see
He was trying to free us
Irish songs in Granny Brown's
Beckett Bridge in rainy night
San Patricios switched sides
Ay caramba! They were right.
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2020
3:37 a.m.
nightwalk
starshine
rabbits
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Qualyxian Quest
Jul 2020
Loco locals
All my wars are laid away in books
Said dearest Emily
Mine are in the mail
Warrior poetly
The pulpit is the prow of the ship
Ishmael is right
The storms are apocalypse
In this last lone American night
The problem with Empires
Is that they always loco locals fight.
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